Maroje Mrduljaš, PhD, is architect engaged in teaching, researching, designing, writing, editing, curating and filmmaking. Maroje contributed to the exhibition projects in prestigious institutions including MoMA NY, SAM Basel, Venice Architecture Biennale, and published in Archithese, A+U, Vesper, Domus, and elsewhere. Since 2005 he has served as editor, and since 2017 as editor-in-chief of Oris international magazine for architecture and culture based in Zagreb.

His most cited book is Modernism-in-Between, Mediatory Architectures of Socialist Yugoslavia (with Vladimir Kulić) while three seasons of documentaries Slumbers of Concrete (with Saša Ban and Nena Sablić) commissioned by the Croatian National Television reached the widest audience.

Maroje is teaching at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb and at Urban Studies, University Of Rijeka. He delivered lectures and was a guest critic at various universities including ARQ-UC Santiago de Chile, ETH Zurich, TU Wien, TU Graz, Politecnico di Milano, IUAV Venezia, KIT Karlsruhe, ETSA Madrid, Berlage Institute Rotterdam, Iowa State University, and others. He lectured at prestigious international institutions including RIBA London, COAC Barcelona, Tadao Ando Foundation Osaka, and AZ Wien.

Maroje’s recent projects explore the dissolution of boundaries between architecture and the environment and the creative reuse of urban fabric. He is a member of the design team behind the Croatian pavilion for EXPO Osaka, alongside Lana Grahek, Antonio Patljak, Antonia Vuković, and Perko Vuković.

Maroje is an independent expert of the Mies van der Rohe EU Prize for contemporary architecture and a member of Committee of Experts of European Prize for Urban Public Space. He has received numerous awards including the most recnet Grand Prix of Zagreb Salon of Architecture 2024.